Popular Sal's City Deli, located on 7th Street and Liberty Avenue downtown, is closed for business. Employees were laid off this week and were shocked to find out they were denied unemployment benefits.

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One employee showed Pittsburgh's Action News 4 a letter from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, stating there is no record of her employment during fiscal year July 1, 2015, to June 30, 2016.

"We were told we got rejected because he didn't file for our taxes between 2015 and 2016. They said we were rejected and have to do an appeal,"cashier Natasha Baltimore said.

Pittsburgh's Action News 4 obtained the letter sent to Baltimore, which states, "Our records show no wages were reported by any employer under the Social Security account number you furnished."

Another employee, who does not want to be identified, said their pay stubs did not indicate taxes were deducted.

"When we got our pay stubs, it never said how many hours we worked or what taxes were taken out. It was a slip of paper," the employee said.

The owner of Sal's Deli, Mike Tarquino, told Pittsburgh Action News 4 he is unaware of the letter that was sent to employees from the Department of Labor and Industry, but said that he intends to address the matter and correct it immediately.